Today, Nester shared a design ‘cut and paste’ project in her home where she re-purposed an underutilized piece of furniture. It made me immediately think of a change we’ve recently made around here…
Every year or so, we conduct a sort of ‘musical chairs’ project upstairs. Instead of chairs, we play ‘musical bedrooms’. The boys decided finally, that they’d like their own rooms which meant: a) our guest room disappeared, b) we had a bonus room again and c)I had to clean out my very disorganized fabric room and turn it back into the legitimate purpose, a bedroom.
I had a hard time convincing a young boy to embrace my great aunt’s mahogany bedroom set which had served as guest room furniture for the last few years. It’s beautiful furniture that has a lot of sentimental value to me. I knew I wanted to somehow use it somewhere in the house.
I convinced the better half to lug the 1,000 pound bureau downstairs and see how it would look in the family room. A bureau in the family room? I wasn’t sure.
Turns out, it fit perfectly between the windows in the room. And, the fact that the legs were raised meant the vent below could still function to heat and cool the room.
Now we have extra space to store school supplies for homework, etc. The drawer space is coming in very handy. And, the top allows for some display space.
